Nick was of course the long serving general manager of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 125. Frank was president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers and the Greater New Haven Central Labor Council. During the 1980s, I talked with Frank Carrano and Nick Aiello. It was clear that a great deal of New Haven history had been forgotten. The Need to Document and Preserve New Haven’s Labor History: Workers struck for higher wages, lower hours of work, against the hiring of non-union workers, reinstating fired workers, and in the cigar industry, supporting a progressive union over a company union. During 1886, women also struck at Strouse-Adler, as did blacksmiths in many shops, cigar makers, laborers, coal drivers, etc. The strike lasted from March 17 until June 17. In the spring of 1886, the workers in the carriage industry conducted a general strike, shutting down stores all over the city. The leading industry in New Haven in those days was the carriage industry, with shops all over the city. I decided to follow it up and I learned there were 21 strikes here in 1886 in a city then with a population of 80,000. I found this quote when researching a paper for graduate school in 1978. Very likely it deserves it in any event the labor problem is in everyone’s mouth.” NY Times, May 2, 1886. “This town (New Haven) has picked up the reputation lately of having more strikes than any other city of its size.
The Early Years of the Labor History Association (1988-1998) From the Address by Frank Annunziato, co-founder and first president, at the Labor History Association Annual Conference and Meeting, Sunday, June 5, 2016:
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He went on to become the CUNY faculty and professional union representative and retire from a 16-year position as the Director of the University of Rhode Island chapter of the Ameican Association of University Professors.Īnnunziato’s address at the Labor History Association’s 2016 annual conference and meeting told the story of the early years of the organization. He was instrumental in helping to build the New Haven Federation of Teachers Local 933 and was the first president of the Labor History Association.
Annunziato is also a New Haven native, a Fairfield University graduate who taught at the University of Massachusetts and the University of Connecticut, the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Rhode Island. He was an active member of the Labor History Association from its founding through the rest of his life, serving as its president for many years. Navy, became a spreader and cutter at the Elm City Shirt Company from 1946 to 1954. He graduated from Hillhouse High School in 1943, earning his degree while employed after school as a bundle boy at Maurice Ucittel as member of Local 125 Shirt and Clothing Workers Union, and, after serving in the U.S. All of his sisters were garment workers at one time or another. Aiello was a long time business agent and organizer for the Amalagamated Clothing Workers of America, who grew up in the Fair Haven section of New Haven in an Italian American family of 14. The Greater New Haven Labor History Association was founded in 1988 by Frank Annunziato and Nicholas Aiello.
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